Blogs posted February 2008

So you’ve done the ABAP Webdynpro course, and you’ve maybe built a few simple webdynpros. Perhaps you now need to build something rather more complex, and what you learnt on the course doesn’t seem to answer all your questions?... Read More »

Introduction In SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI) 7.1, there is support for using parameters in mapping programs.  In general, the ability to pass parameters to/from mapping programs gives them more flexibility and applicability by... Read More »

How to communicate architecture – Technical Architecture Modeling at SAP (part 2) This blog complements my presentation about architecture modeling at SAP TechEd 2007 [TechEd2007a]. After the first blog post giving an introduction and... Read More »

This blog entry will show the configuration of Integrated Excel Planning that will help in uploading plan data against WBS’s from Excel sheet. I searched around on this topic for a while and never found a complete configuration guide on Excel... Read More »

Introduction: Graphical variable is a new feature in the Message Mapping tool of PI 7.1. Among many of the new features, I think this simple feature will probably be one of the most useful, if not the most used new feature in PI 7.1. Graphical... Read More »

Introduction In SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI) 7.1, there is now graphical support for JDBC and RFC mapping lookups in message mappings, instead of having to create a user-defined function with the relevant lookup code as in previous... Read More »

With SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (PI) 7.1, SAP introduces significant new features and enhancements within the graphical mapping tool that greatly facilitates the design/creation of message mappings going forward. In this blog series, William... Read More »

https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/cs/blank/edit/wlg/https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/cs/blank/edit/wlg/ Using the transaction IDX5 you can see the Idoc messages which are sent or received by the IDOC Adapter in XI , the advanced functions in IDX5 enables... Read More »

Introduction: In XI 3.0 and PI 7.0, in order to save storage, synchronous message content is never stored in the database. When we tried to display the message content, we will get the message: This makes debugging somewhat more difficult, since... Read More »

I left beautiful Vancouver (it was not raining today) to go to Frankfurt for two weeks (the forecast was rain and snow). So I am sitting here in the Lufthansa plane writing my first in a series of blogs I am planning to write over the next couple... Read More »